So after spending a couple of days in Ho Chi Minh City, I could no longer stand the noise, the humidity and the traffic, so I got the hell out of Dodge and went on a 2 day Mekong Delta tour. The motivation was two fold - first the tour came highly recommended by the British girl I met in Saigon a couple of days ago, and second, I really miss the beach and there is this idyllic island right off the coast close to the Mekong Delta called Phu Quoc, which is supposed to be like Phuket in Thailand before it was discovered. So on the first day, we took a bus to My Tho, got in a boat and after cruising for a bit, we came to a bee farm and a coconut candy
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